That's useful feedback. Sometimes I do that and worry it's annoying.
Quite often people get confused or panic when I do it though, or act as though something like: "it's pronounced as it's spelt, with the second syllable emphasized" is the most difficult, complex, confusing instruction they've ever been given; or I'm the most fussy, unreasonable person in the world for making a distinction between two really very different sets of sounds.
Because I hate my own name being mispronounced so much, I usually just ask about other peoples' if I have any doubt at all. And I'm always really pleased when someone asks me, so you shouldn't be shy about doing this.
When people ask whether they can call me Cat, I say they can, though I slightly resent it, because my name really isn't difficult to pronounce, and although I like cats, I don't want to call myself after one, and I identify as more of a 'dog person' than a 'cat person'. Nowadays, this seems to have resulted in me generally being called Cat at work. Probably a good thing all in all, because it's reduced instances of Cat-ri-OH-na rage.
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Date: 2012-01-05 06:33 pm (UTC)Quite often people get confused or panic when I do it though, or act as though something like: "it's pronounced as it's spelt, with the second syllable emphasized" is the most difficult, complex, confusing instruction they've ever been given; or I'm the most fussy, unreasonable person in the world for making a distinction between two really very different sets of sounds.
Because I hate my own name being mispronounced so much, I usually just ask about other peoples' if I have any doubt at all. And I'm always really pleased when someone asks me, so you shouldn't be shy about doing this.
When people ask whether they can call me Cat, I say they can, though I slightly resent it, because my name really isn't difficult to pronounce, and although I like cats, I don't want to call myself after one, and I identify as more of a 'dog person' than a 'cat person'. Nowadays, this seems to have resulted in me generally being called Cat at work. Probably a good thing all in all, because it's reduced instances of Cat-ri-OH-na rage.